BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – Greetings from the Arena at Harbor Yard, where No. 7 seed Siena will take on No. 2 Iona tonight in a MAAC Tournament quarterfinal. You can follow my in-game updates at twitter.com/MarkSingelais. There will be halftime and postgame reports on this blog. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30, though it will probably start […]
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – Here’s postgame video from the Siena women’s season-ending 60-45 loss to Marist in a MAAC Tournament semifinal: The first video contains the game highlights: The second video has the postgame newsconference with head coach Gina Castelli and seniors Cathy Cockrum and Serena Moore. Starting at the 7:25 mark, Castelli discusses what it’s […]
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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. – Ah, youth. The very reason for the optimism surrounding the near-future of the UAlbany men’s basketball team proved its undoing Saturday. The Great Danes are one-and-done in the America East Conference Tournament after a 67-61 loss to Stony Brook at Chase Family Arena. The Great Danes coulda won here. Can’t say […]
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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — In the end, it didn’t matter that the University at Albany beat Stony Brook twice in the America East’s regular season. When the Danes absolutely, positively had to beat the Seawolves, they couldn’t do it. Because of that, coach Will Brown and his staff weren’t holed up in a downtown Hartford […]
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Mark Singelais and Mark McGuire will host a live chat for Siena-Iona tonight, but in the meantime, our colleagues at HearstCT are covering the MAAC Tournament all weekend at the Arena at Harbor Yard. Keep track of the latest news and scores from the tournament: 2011 MAAC Basketball Tournament Live Blog
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – Marist senior guard Erica Allenspach, the Player of the Year in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, matched her career high with 34 points to end Siena’s season with a 60-45 victory in a tournament semifinal this afternoon. Allenspach made six 3-pointers for 21st-ranked Marist (29-2), which will go for its sixth straight […]
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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — The University at Albany survived an early barrage of 3-pointers by Stony Brook and the two teams are tied 34-34 after the first half of their America East quarterfinal game at Chase Arena on the campus of the University of Hartford. The Danes got 14 points from senior Tim Ambrose and […]
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – Marist senior guard Erica Allenspach, the MAAC Player of the Year, has 15 points as the 21st-ranked Red Foxes lead Siena 25-22 at halftime of their tournament semifinal. Despite Allenspach’s scoring, the Saints are staying in this game with superior defense. Marist is shooting 34.5 percent (10 of 29) from the field […]
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